Comments from the Dallas Cowboys' locker room after the 49-17 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday night:

"They did great tonight, their defense has been playing good. We had our reasons for making our change. Sean (Payton) did a good job of getting Rob (Ryan) down here. He's as smart as can be. He's from an outstanding football bloodline. That's why we hired him two years ago for the Cowboys. He's that good a football coach. We thought it was best to go in the direction that we are, and it doesn't look good right now." -- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on if he regrets firing Rob Ryan and hiring Monte Kiffin.

"We knew we had to take away their run and make them one-dimensional and we didn't do that. They were able to drive the ball consistently throughout the game. On offense we simply weren't able to answer, and you have to answer against an offense like that." -- Cowboys coach Jason Garrett on the game plan vs. the New Orleans Saints.

"Everything you want is in front of you. We obviously have been humbled by this. We've got to take a deep breath, evaluate. The focus is to play better moving forward." -- Cowboys tight end Jason Witten on the NFC East race going forward.

"It's about losing tonight and what happened in this football game. We have to go look at this, evaluate and get better. We did not play a good football game tonight." --Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo on his sense of frustration.

"I didn't expect this, and I didn't see this coming. I did think we'd come in here and get some points on the board. They just did a very good job of defensing us, kept us off the field. They had the ball a lot and really did a good job offensively. I can't say enough about how well they played and they put it all together tonight and we were the recipients of it." -- Jones on if he was surprised by the result.